(KUTV) — Alaina Allred's house and car are filled with plastic bags. "I'm a bag lady," she laughed. She has been collecting them for a very special project. "A lot of people just didn't know what to ...

Plastic grocery bags can be surprisingly useful. While some recycle them back to the grocery store and the un-green just throw them away, some people find new uses for the flimsy-but-tough stuff.

THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Great news West Michigan: those excess grocery bags lying around the house don’t have to be thrown out anymore. The National Honor Society students at Three Rivers High School ...

"The Mats Project," a volunteer program by Crochet Class 501(c)(3), is creating mats for the unhoused population. Executive Director Merri Medley and Volunteer Programs Director Tanya Rodriguez share ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The average store ...

A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by hand ...

MARYSVILLE — Inmates at Ohio’s prison for women are making sleeping mats for homeless people using an all-too-familiar artifact of the modern world: plastic grocery bags. About a dozen residents on a ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...